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There is a vast range of concepts that is related to this issue, such as discrimination, ethnocentrism, prejudices, etc. And there are a lot of positive connotations once we successfully manage to interact appropriately.http://moazedi.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)Blogger697125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-7744165993836067854Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:47:00 +00002018-03-19T08:47:43.887+01:00homophobialanguagequeerNaughty Homophoneshomophone, definition:<br />1. <i>Phonetics.</i> a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.<br />2. a written element that represents the same spoken unit as another, as ks, a homophone of x in English.<br />(<a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/homophone">dictionary</a>) <br /><br /><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--KMCf1iiwAI/Wq0DCYAE7oI/AAAAAAAAPjs/WRmA_F6n-ycjJuyRV5ALm27XEoN9PgBiACLcBGAs/s1600/school_children_france_vintage.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--KMCf1iiwAI/Wq0DCYAE7oI/AAAAAAAAPjs/WRmA_F6n-ycjJuyRV5ALm27XEoN9PgBiACLcBGAs/s500/school_children_france_vintage.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Tim Torkildson was a teacher in Provo, Utah. He was also an education blogger. On his weblog, he wrote a posting about homophones ... and was fired by the owner of the language school he was working for. Homophones would be associated with homosexuality, some students could become offended or think the school had a "gay agenda". The teacher could not be trusted to write a regular blog. That was in 2014 (<a href="http://www.citypages.com/news/mpls-native-tim-torkildson-fired-from-utah-school-for-blogging-about-homophones-6534714">via</a> and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/education-blogger-fired-writing-about-homophones-and-confusing-homophobes-262404">via</a> and <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/31/blogger-fired-homophones_n_5637873.html">via</a>).<br /><br />- - - - - -<br />photograph by Robert Doisneau <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kMdtWDHwU74/Vi_dRBTCJ4I/AAAAAAAARxY/uZQweZjH6TE/s1600/school_children_france_vintage.jpg">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/03/naughty-homophones.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-1634124500687591273Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:53:00 +00002018-03-15T14:53:34.623+01:00ethnicityimmigrationThe Fortune 284Since 1955, Fortune Magazine has been ranking the 500 largest US-American companies by total revenue. The Center of American Entrepreneurship analysed the Fortune 500 data for 2017 and found that 43% of them were founded or co-founded by a first- or second-generation immigrant. Among the largest Fortune 500 companies their occurence is even higher (52% of the top 25 firms, 75% of the top 35 firms) (<a href="http://startupsusa.org/fortune500/">via</a>).<br /><br /><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_szHAk6SobU/Wqp4V9uQ8RI/AAAAAAAAPjI/4gvM14-6QZUHqjpQ-fYxKrYxjA-Lo2s_wCLcBGAs/s1600/NYC%2527s%2BDaily%2BLife%2Bin%2Bthe%2B1950s%2B%252811%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_szHAk6SobU/Wqp4V9uQ8RI/AAAAAAAAPjI/4gvM14-6QZUHqjpQ-fYxKrYxjA-Lo2s_wCLcBGAs/s500/NYC%2527s%2BDaily%2BLife%2Bin%2Bthe%2B1950s%2B%252811%2529.jpg" /></a><br /><br />photograph <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-__31RJGFtMY/U6WYRzf9-kI/AAAAAAAAr1c/6ggX7DN73-o/s1600/NYC's+Daily+Life+in+the+1950s+(11).jpg">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-fortune-284.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-5282187159566808349Thu, 08 Mar 2018 08:21:00 +00002018-03-08T09:21:28.404+01:00genderlanguageGirl or Woman? Language Matters.In the late 1970s, Robert Brannon gave 462 college students a story to read which described a female's application for a high-level executive position. In one version, she was referred to as a "girl", in the other as a "woman". Students then had to rate her personality traits.<br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mR2ZvKoHPLQ/Wp2i3a0sWkI/AAAAAAAAPXs/v1-zTCbidNYGG9XXPcpeNwEDkznsrzRoQCLcBGAs/s1600/Adrianne-1976.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mR2ZvKoHPLQ/Wp2i3a0sWkI/AAAAAAAAPXs/v1-zTCbidNYGG9XXPcpeNwEDkznsrzRoQCLcBGAs/s500/Adrianne-1976.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><i>Results:</i> When the female applicant was called a woman, students described her as more tough, mature, more qualified, more deserving of a higher salary than when she was referred to as a girl.<br /><br />- - - - - - - - -<br />- Brannon, R. (1978). The Consequences of Sexist Language. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Meetings, Toronto.<br />- photograph by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/apr/14/joseph-szabo-portraits-of-adolescence-untethered-michael-hoppen-gallery">Joseph Szabo</a> (1976) <a href="http://spiritandfleshmag.com/articles/fast-times-at-malverne-high/">via</a>, copyright by owner(s)http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/03/girl-or-woman-language-matters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-4033682033158864401Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:05:00 +00002018-03-06T13:05:03.012+01:00ethnicityfilminclusionAtelier de conversation"There are no strangers. Only people who we do not yet know.'"<br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EKBFMF6E1Hs" width="500"></iframe> <br /><br />Once a week, people from all over the world meet at the <i>Atelier de conversation</i> in the Centre Pompidou in Paris to talk to each other, to improve their French. People who would otherwise probably never meet come together at a place where "social and cultural borders dissolve" (<a href="https://schaller08.at/en/atelier-de-conversation/">via</a>).<br /><br />Author and director: Bernhard Braunstein<br />Awards: Opening Film, Cinéma du rèel 2017, Paris/France; Documentary Special Jury Prize, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017, Karlovy Vary/Czech Republic; ARTE Documentary Film Prize, Duisburger Filmwoche 2017, Duisburg/Germany<br /><br /><i>"The therapy aspect is very important, but there are a lot of other aspects. I think the language is important and there are really people who are struggling and want to learn something and they’re writing down vocabulary. But there are also a lot of people who are coming there to find friends. The people connect and become friends, some help each other to find a flat or even move in together. So, this social part is very important and, of course, they are all going through a difficult experience and they feel that they can talk about it together. This is the therapy part of it."</i><br /><a href="https://www.filmdoo.com/blog/2017/09/14/interview-bernhard-braunstein-raphael-casadesus-talk-atelier-de-conversation/">Bernhard Braunstein</a><br /><br /><i>"We need to start to become human, rather than talking about the masses of immigrants that will destroy us, we should see the individuals. I think this is something you can see in my film. You see that these are people, these are humans with a story and not somehow a danger."</i><br /><a href="https://www.filmdoo.com/blog/2017/09/14/interview-bernhard-braunstein-raphael-casadesus-talk-atelier-de-conversation/">Bernhard Braunstein</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/03/atelier-de-conversation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-2117001541883321361Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:50:00 +00002018-03-05T09:50:39.621+01:00footballgendersportsunquote(Un-)Quoting Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk"Football as a game is first and foremost a demonstration of masculinity as we understand it from our traditional view of things and as produced in part by our physical constitution (through hormonal irritation). No one has ever been successful in getting women to play football. ... Kicking is thus presumably a specifically male activity; whether being kicked is consequently female - that is something I will leave unanswered."<br />Buytendijk (1953:20)<br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8udugVrzXrI/Wpb1GLii2wI/AAAAAAAAPPo/9MgaAaie52gdA1j5CgfCR8WGd_yt4_8mACLcBGAs/s1600/dickkerrladiesfc.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8udugVrzXrI/Wpb1GLii2wI/AAAAAAAAPPo/9MgaAaie52gdA1j5CgfCR8WGd_yt4_8mACLcBGAs/s500/dickkerrladiesfc.jpg" /></a><br /><br />"Kicking differs essentially from throwing. For one thing, kicking is by nature more aggressive than throwing; for another, throwing is linked to catching, i.e. receiving, whereas kicking is linked to kicking back. ... One can certainly throw like a girl, but one can only kick like a man."<br />Buytendijk (1953:20)<br /><br />- - - - - - - - - - - -<br />- F. J. J. Buytendijk (1887-1974), Das Fussballspiel. Eine psychologische Studie, published in 1953<br />- photograph of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXi8-js9Y4Q">Dick Kerr Ladies F.C.</a> <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/the-game-of-two-other-halves---how-181220">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/03/un-quoting-frederik-jacobus-johannes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-8067570107321478115Sun, 04 Mar 2018 11:15:00 +00002018-03-04T17:49:16.497+01:00ItalyracismxenophobiaThe League of Ordinary Non-GentlemenToday, Italians go to the polls. Immigration has become the key issue which automatically means that the radical right has a party programme: Italians first. The party&nbsp;<i>Lega Nord per l'Indipendenza della Padania</i>&nbsp;(The Northern League) was founded by Umberto Bossi who in 2017 was sentenced to two years and three months' imprisonment for using hundreds of thousands of euros in public funds to pay personal expenses. Former Northern League treasurer Francesco Belsito was sentenced to two years and six months. Umberto Bossi's son Renzo, by the way, was also convicted and given a sentence of one year and six months (<a href="http://www.ansa.it/lombardia/notizie/2017/07/10/lega-due-anni-e-3-mesi-a-umberto-bossi-_522aa898-a5a8-46db-8d11-76b95fa5ee6c.html">via</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Bossi">via</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/founder-of-italys-northern-league-umberto-bossi-jailed-for-fraud/a-39632550">via</a>).<br /><br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B622aEXY9v4/Wo05pD8tObI/AAAAAAAAPLI/SWxL6Qn9hqEVAnkU_pj-dLoohmCQXohRACLcBGAs/s1600/pazzia.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B622aEXY9v4/Wo05pD8tObI/AAAAAAAAPLI/SWxL6Qn9hqEVAnkU_pj-dLoohmCQXohRACLcBGAs/s500/pazzia.jpg" /></a><br /><br />The founder of this party is the man who married in 1975, aged 35, and promised his wife to finish his university studies soon. After all, he was not really working and his mother was paying for his studies, so he had to hurry. In 1979, he told everyone that he had finally received his doctorate degree and would soon start to work as a doctor at the hospital Del Ponte in Varese. His proud wife bought him a beautiful brown briefcase which he left with every morning when he went to work, at the hospital, as a doctor. One day in 1981, in the meantime he had obtained his second degree, his wife went to university where - surprise, surprise - she learned that her wonderful husband had never finished his studies and never worked as a doctor (<a href="http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2001/10/19/da-bossi-la-loggi-quando-potenti-non.html?refresh_ce">via</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://espresso.repubblica.it/palazzo/2012/10/01/news/quel-fannullone-chiamato-bossi-1.47136">via</a>). His son Renzo, of course, is completely different. Okay, he was charged with embezzlement too but at least he really got a degree. In fact, it was a bachelor's degree in Economics and Management at Kristal University in Albania. In 2013, Renzo Bossi was charged with corruption in Albania because <i>"he earned a degree in social sciences without spending a single day in university. He has never been in Albania and he doesn't know the language"</i>&nbsp;(<a href="http://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2013/12/02/news/lauree_in_albania_c_anche_bossi_junior_fra_i_dieci_italiani_sotto_inchiesta_a_tirana-72495364/?ref=fbpl">via</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renzo_Bossi">via</a>).<br />Now, the party's leader is Matteo Salvini. He studied at the University of Milan, never graduated but at least never pretended to have. Salvini was also involved in Bossi's fraud (<a href="http://espresso.repubblica.it/inchieste/2017/09/28/news/esclusivo-salvini-ha-usato-i-soldi-della-truffa-di-bossi-1.311009">via</a>), he is a strong supporter of the football team A.C. Milan (which - what a coincidence - was owned by Berlusconi until last year), he supports Trump, opposes the embargo against Russia and same-sex marriage ... because, you know, traditional family values. He is the man who is going to rescue Italy by suggesting the introduction of segregation in public transport with reserved seats for "real" citizens of Milan but also for women to protect them from savage immigrants who he is going to deport as he is about to start a <i>"controlled ethnic cleansing"</i> (<a href="http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2016/08/17/salvini-dons-police-uniform-for-migrant-cleansing-call_c48adf90-62bf-45fc-a3fe-dd5a3e92765f.html">via</a> and <a href="https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matteo_Salvini">via</a>).<br />This is not about the right, the left, or the centre. This is a party that offers no solution to any problem. Instead, it rides on the current wave of populist nationalism telling people how unfairly they are treated, that they themselves are not part of the so-called system but concerned about "the people" who they are fighting for making sure Italians get what they deserve. It is only about gaining votes with a rhetoric the world has not yet got tired of. This is also about a lack of style, class, and diplomacy in politics.<br /><br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XIwoxSnRBis/Wo05sW1cLFI/AAAAAAAAPLM/1vvjFgs21JIr9tl0IqZO45eLsohj1JUCgCLcBGAs/s1600/rabbia.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XIwoxSnRBis/Wo05sW1cLFI/AAAAAAAAPLM/1vvjFgs21JIr9tl0IqZO45eLsohj1JUCgCLcBGAs/s500/rabbia.jpg" /></a><br /><br />images <a href="http://www.equilibriarte.org/profile/gronchifotoarte/works/23481/idWork/5242b2fe3edb35461943b379">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-league-of-ordinary-non-gentlemen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-1380940449800910317Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:24:00 +00002018-02-28T16:24:14.582+01:00beautygendermarketingsexismTo guard the loveliness he lovesWhen he comes home, will he find you as lovely as his heart has dreamed you'd be? Day's end or year's end ... will the sweet look, the soft touch of you ... be just as he remembered?<br />For his sake, guard your loveliness. Choose your beauty soap with care and caution. <i>Know</i> what it is made with!<br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8R-uksvDWU4/WpbIadqS9fI/AAAAAAAAPPY/Rvny9YfIXvYUoegby8BDMlq5mW3poLC3wCLcBGAs/s1600/4574404b78bbe8350f15c4cae537f4ff.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8R-uksvDWU4/WpbIadqS9fI/AAAAAAAAPPY/Rvny9YfIXvYUoegby8BDMlq5mW3poLC3wCLcBGAs/s740/4574404b78bbe8350f15c4cae537f4ff.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Consider, for example, that of all leading soaps, Palmolive alone is made with Olive and Palm Oils. Into its making go no animals fats ... only those fine vegetable oils ... treasured as beauty aids since Cleopatra's day.<br />No wonder millions of women thrill to the way Palmolive helps keep skin smooth, petal-soft and at its radiant best. No wonder Palmolive is the world's largest-selling beauty soap. To guard the loveliness <i>he</i> loves ... turn now to Palmolive's gentle care! <br />Now more than ever ... keep that schoolgirl complexion<br /><br />- - - - - - - -<br />image <a href="https://www.pinterest.at/pin/539376492845507642/">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/02/to-guard-loveliness-he-loves.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-3772334488844722012Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:29:00 +00002018-02-26T16:29:03.079+01:00gendersexismTVAnchorman"It is anchor<i>man</i>, not anchor<i>lady</i>. And that is a scientific fact."<br /><a href="https://www.ifc.com/2012/03/anchorman-one-liners">Champ Kind</a> (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)<br /><br />Australian TV anchor Karl Stefanovic saw the sexism his female colleagues had to deal with and decided to start an experiment. He wore the same blue suit for a whole year (2013/14) every morning on Channel Nine's Today programme. There was absolutely no reaction. His female co-host Lisa Wilkinson, however, kept receiving feedback (e.g. "Who the heck is Lisa's stylist?", "Today's outfit is particularly jarring and awful. Get some style.") (<a href="https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/karl-stefanovics-sexism-experiment-today-presenter-wears-same-suit-for-a-year-20141115-11ncdz.html">via</a>).<br /><br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eMQjXuPfqoE/WpQfHxw4fTI/AAAAAAAAPOU/14UciqGnIzwYgjIEQsAzaFLtNEsQ8gklQCLcBGAs/s1600/ron_burgundy.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eMQjXuPfqoE/WpQfHxw4fTI/AAAAAAAAPOU/14UciqGnIzwYgjIEQsAzaFLtNEsQ8gklQCLcBGAs/s500/ron_burgundy.jpg" /></a><br /><br />"No one has noticed; no one gives a shit. But women, they wear the wrong colour and they get pulled up. They say the wrong thing and there's thousands of tweets written about them.<br />Women are judged much more harshly and keenly for what they do, what they say and what they wear.<br />I've worn the same suit on air for a year – except for a couple of times because of circumstance – to make a point. I'm judged on my interviews, my appalling sense of humour – on how I do my job, basically. Whereas women are quite often judged on what they're wearing or how their hair is ... that's [what I wanted to test]." <br /><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/karl-stefanovics-sexism-experiment-today-presenter-wears-same-suit-for-a-year-20141115-11ncdz.html">Karl Stefanovic</a><br /><br />"Today’s media landscape, particularly for women, is one now so focused on the glossy and the glamorous, it often eclipses and undermines everything else,” she told the audience. “When you’re a woman doing breakfast TV, you quickly learn the sad truth that what you wear can sometimes generate a bigger reaction than even any political interview you ever do."<br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/nov/17/male-tv-presenter-same-suit-year-female-colleagues-judged">Lisa Wilkinson</a><br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_P598YtCua0?rel=0" width="500"></iframe> <br /><br />Quotes from the movie (<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/anchorman-movie-quotes/movie-and-tv-quotes">via</a>):<br /><b><br /></b><b>Ed Harken:</b> "A lot of you have been hearing the affiliates complaining about a lack of diversity on the news team."<br /><b>Champ Kind: </b>"What in the hell's diversity?"<br /><b>Ron Burgundy:</b> "Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era." <br /><b>Ed Harken:</b> "Ron, I would be surprised if the affiliates were concerned about the lack of an old, old wooden ship, but nice try." <br /><br /><b>Ron Burgundy:</b> "Do you know who I am?"<br /><b>Veronica Corningstone:</b> "No, I can't say that I do."<br /><b>Ron Burgundy: </b>"I don't know how to put this, but, I'm kind of a big deal."<br /><b>Veronica Corningstone: </b>"Really?"<br /><b>Ron Burgundy: </b>"People know me."<br /><b>Veronica Corningstone: </b>"Well I'm very happy for you."<br /><b>Ron Burgundy: </b>"I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany."<br /><br />- - - - - - -- - -<br />image of Will Ferrell, "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy"&nbsp;<a href="http://schmoesknow.com/ron-burgundy-memoir-to-hit-bookshelves-before-anchorman-2/14944/">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/02/anchorman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-1695849177536332973Sat, 24 Feb 2018 17:39:00 +00002018-02-24T18:51:40.590+01:00genderOlympicssportsTVNBC's Winter Olympics' Gender Coverage Gap and Gender Marking&nbsp;<i>"[This all] sends a powerful message about the value of women’s sport. We may be picking up on this during the 2018 Olympics, but none of this is new. There’s a whole history of examples of similar things happening, it’s just that sometimes we have these moments where we can really notice how even in 2018, despite the tremendous gains we’ve made, women’s sport is still occupying second-class status."&nbsp;</i><br /><a href="https://deadspin.com/why-some-winter-olympic-sports-are-faster-higher-str-1823153425">Cooky</a><br /><br /><img border="0" br="" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WD_yKmiW7ig/WpGSKjucpqI/AAAAAAAAPNU/wW22TXHOqFExbb_WqZj7b2ZDrOKHieksgCLcBGAs/s500/demleitner_hoelzlwimmer.jpg" /><br /><br />NBC's primetime broadcast of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games is - so far - not gender balanced. Significantly more men's events are highlightened than women's events. In the first ten nights, men received 48.5% of the coverage, women received 32.9% (18.6% were dedicated to mixed-pair events). The 15.6% gap is smaller than the average gap found in the past two decades but wider than it was in the first half of the Sochi Games (<a href="http://www.newswise.com/articles/nbcs-primetime-olympic-broadcast-features-more-male-athletes-by-significant-margin">via</a>).<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>"The results of the first week of NBC’s primetime coverage of PyeongChang are a bit disheartening because of the continued press for equal coverage."&nbsp;</i><a href="http://www.newswise.com/articles/nbcs-primetime-olympic-broadcast-features-more-male-athletes-by-significant-margin">James Angelini</a></blockquote>Weiller, Greenleaf and Higgs analysed TV broadcasts of the 1991, 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics which were all covered by NBC. They focused on sports that had male and female participants and noticed an increased amount of coverage of women's sports and athletes from 1996 to 2000. In numerous sports, gender marking (identifying the gender of the athletes, e.g. "swimming" vs "women's swimming") was evident.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>"In track and field, audiences were reminded 57 that they were watching the U.S. Women's Track Team. They were reminded only 12 times that they were watching the U.S. Men's Track Team. Similarly, during the rowing competition, there were 27 instances of gender marking for female athletes during the one hour and 45-minute time frame televised. Little gender marking occurred for male athletes in rowing."<br /></i><a href="https://news.unt.edu/news-releases/gender-bias-still-evident-olympics-coverage-study-says-0">Karen Weiller</a></blockquote>Gender marking of female athletes implies that in sports, male is the norm and female the deviation. For instance, we have "football" and "women's football". There is no "men's football", it is just "football".<br /><br />There was also a hierarchy of naming as athletes of the women's rowing competition were called "girls" ten times; male athletes were never referred to as "boys". Women competing in swimming and diving were referred to by their forenames 87 times, gymnastic commentators used women's forenames 104 times (for men 11 times and 64 times) (<a href="https://news.unt.edu/news-releases/gender-bias-still-evident-olympics-coverage-study-says-0">via</a>).<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>"It is obvious that media coverage of an event like the Olympic Games is critical in setting the tone as to how women are represented in the sports media. But as Olympics coverage shows, men's sports continue to enjoy a level of focus and sophistication that women's sports are missing."<br /> </i><a href="https://news.unt.edu/news-releases/gender-bias-still-evident-olympics-coverage-study-says-0">Karen Weiller</a></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>"Comparison of female athletes to males in the same sport suggests a standard differential and standard comparison, most often with the female athletes being identified as the lesser of the two."<br /></i><a href="https://news.unt.edu/news-releases/gender-bias-still-evident-olympics-coverage-study-says-0">Karen Weiller</a></blockquote>- - - - - - - - - - - -<br />Photograph of Elisabeth Demleitner and Stephan Hoelzlwimmer (West German luge team) with their latest design in helmets, Innsbruck, 1976 <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/02/looking-back-photos-from-the-first-12-winter-olympics/100679/">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-winter-olympics-gender-coverage-gap.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-362172099838029464Thu, 22 Feb 2018 07:38:00 +00002018-02-22T08:38:59.035+01:00artdiscriminationprejudicepsychologyPaul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and the Creation of Social Groups"The aim of the studies was to assess the effects of social categorization on intergroup behaviour when, in the intergroup situation, neither calculations of individual interest nor previously existing attitudes of hostility could have been said to have determined discriminative behaviour against an outgroup. These conditions were satisfied in the experimental design. In the first series of experiments, it was found that the subjects favoured their own group in the distribution of real rewards and penalities in a situation in which nothing but the variable of fairly irrelevant classification distinguished between the ingroup and the outgroup. In the second series of experiments it was found that: 1) maximum joint profit independent of group membership did not affect significantly the manner in which the subjects divided real pecuniary rewards; 2) maximum profit for own group did affect the distribution of rewards; 3) the clearest effect on the distribution of rewards was due to the subjects' attempt to achieve a maximum difference between the ingroup and the outgroup even at the price of sacrificing other ‘objective’ advantages."<br />Tajfel et al. (1971)<br /><br /><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4EIpMm-vJzg/Wo5fvBA9yuI/AAAAAAAAPLs/ZjEINvkzdwUaItAhXcBU66NQSNSBQwYogCLcBGAs/s1600/wassily-kandinsky.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4EIpMm-vJzg/Wo5fvBA9yuI/AAAAAAAAPLs/ZjEINvkzdwUaItAhXcBU66NQSNSBQwYogCLcBGAs/s500/wassily-kandinsky.jpg" /></a><br /><br />In 1971, Tajfel et al. showed eight high school students - who thought the study was on artistic taste - paintings by Paul Klee (1879-1940) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). Based on their preferences they were assigned to two groups (X group and Y group). Then, they were given money which they had to allocate to the students of their in-group and the out-group (but not to themselves). The participants showed two tendencies: 1) Money between two students of the in-group or the out-group was allocated in a fair way, i.e., each received the same amount. However, 2) in-group favouritism could be observed as more points were given to the students of the in-group than to the out-group. In other words, gains of students of their own group were maximised in comparison to the out-group. That also meant that students were willing to give their own group fewer points if only the out-group got even fewer ones.<br />Example: Students chose to assign 8 points to their own group and 3 to the other group although they could have chosen to give 13 points each group (Stangor, 2004). Categorisation into groups based on arbitrary criteria and there it is: group favouritism. Tajfel (1971) concludes that discrimination is not necessarily related to a history of social conflict or hostility.<br /><br /><i>"Perhaps those educators in our competitive societies who from the earliest schooling are so keen on 'teams' and 'team spirit' could give some thought to the operation of these side effects."</i><br />Tajfel (1971)<br /><br />- - - - - - - --<br />- Stangor, C. (2004). Social Groups in Action and Interaction. New York &amp; Hove: Psychology Press<br />- Tajfel, H. (1971). Experiments in Intergroup Discrimination, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/biases/Experiments%20inIntergroup%20Discrimination%20Tajfel%201970001.pdf">download</a><br />- Tajfel, H., Billig, M. G., Bundy, R. P. &amp; Flament, C. (1971). Social categorization and intergroup behaviour. <i>European Journal of Social Psychology, 1(2),</i> 149-178.<br />- image of Wassily Kandinsky&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sartle.com/artist/wassily-kandinsky">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/02/paul-klee-wassily-kandinsky-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-8292266164918880952Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:51:00 +00002018-02-21T12:51:37.403+01:00ageageismquotespace 1999Quoting Martin Landau<i>"Ageism is something that does exist." </i><br /><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/martin_landau_836124?src=t_ageism">Martin Landau</a><br /><br /><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yGSlSeHHncM/Wo1AAVC3rkI/AAAAAAAAPLc/b6LWqyl6nNQIsMxKhxoqSWIFeLlnf_CQQCLcBGAs/s1600/landau.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yGSlSeHHncM/Wo1AAVC3rkI/AAAAAAAAPLc/b6LWqyl6nNQIsMxKhxoqSWIFeLlnf_CQQCLcBGAs/s500/landau.jpg" /></a><br /><br />image of Martin Landau (1928-2017)&nbsp;<a href="http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/epguide/t08gop.html">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/02/quoting-martin-landau.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-3910205071007196070Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:58:00 +00002018-02-20T19:00:30.938+01:00educationquoteschoolSir Peter UstinovThe Sir Peter Ustinov FoundationThe Sir Peter Ustinov Foundation was founded by UNICEF goodwill ambassador Sir Peter Ustinov and his son in 1999. Its focus is to grant children access to education and an optimistic future "irrespective of their cultural, social, religious or financial background". Ustinov was convinced that education is the key to a better future, to a world with less poverty and fewer conflicts. He was also convinced that prejudices are the origin of all conflicts. The foundation actively looks after vulnerable children such as orphans, children with facial disfigurement and young trafficked prostitutes.<br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7jQUayUeyVo/WoxbZ2JhVTI/AAAAAAAAPK4/8EOibTyBNA4vkAHDRNrlK45vBwZN7ALKwCLcBGAs/s1600/MissPiggyUstinov.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7jQUayUeyVo/WoxbZ2JhVTI/AAAAAAAAPK4/8EOibTyBNA4vkAHDRNrlK45vBwZN7ALKwCLcBGAs/s500/MissPiggyUstinov.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Currently, there are eight Peter Ustinov schools in Germany dedicated to living an open-mind culture and fighting prejudices. There is also the Ustinov College in Durham (where students are called Ustinovians) and the Ustinov Institute in Vienna, both support research on prejudices in order to eliminate them (<a href="http://www.ustinov-stiftung.de/en">via</a>).<br /><br />- - - - - - - -<br />images <a href="https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/GMC_808_MissPiggyUstinov.jpg">via</a>&nbsp;(copyright by respective owner/s)http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-sir-peter-ustinov-foundation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-7541882055036801866Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:57:00 +00002018-02-15T10:57:07.864+01:00diversityGeorge TakeiLeonard NimoyNichelle NicholsspaceStar TrekWilliam ShatnerInfinite Diversity in Infinite CombinationsSpock's IDIC (Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations) medallion first appeared in the dinner scene of <i>"Is There in Truth No Beauty?"</i> (season 3, 1968). It was inserted into the script because Gene Roddenberry wanted to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPPWiUfpwdo&amp;t=3s">sell</a> it at his Lincoln Enterprises (he had already tried to include the IDIC at the end of the episode <i>"Spock's Brain"</i> but his suggestion was ignored, probably because it was too late to implement it). As Nimoy, Shatner and other actors were not amused, Roddenberry agreed to rewrite the dinner scene and use the Vulcan IDIC in a less prominent way (<a href="http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Is_There_in_Truth_No_Beauty%3F_(episode)">via</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://startrekfactcheck.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/dont-know-much-about-vulcan-philosophy.html">via</a>).<br /><br /><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-osSiaSuLLnU/WoVOkVeahMI/AAAAAAAAPHU/K996-Aht0bUnH0wg2T7TKErQCxEedxE4ACLcBGAs/s1600/idic.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-osSiaSuLLnU/WoVOkVeahMI/AAAAAAAAPHU/K996-Aht0bUnH0wg2T7TKErQCxEedxE4ACLcBGAs/s500/idic.jpeg" /></a><br /><i><br /></i><i>"Our first day of filming, Tuesday, July 16th, arrived, and I was greeted with a mutiny on the Enterprise. Bill Shatner and Leonard Nimoy had very strong objections to a portion of the scene we were scheduled to do that day and were refusing to film. Since the objection was to dialogue involving a piece of jewelry that Gene Roddenberry had designed, he was summoned to the set. (I have since learned that Leonard Nimoy first phoned producer Fred Freiberger to tell him of the problem. When Freiberger refused to take any action, Leonard called Roddenberry.) The morning was spent in a round table war with the six characters involved in the scene plus Gene and me. But the battle was strictly Bill and Leonard vs Gene. Bill and Leonard felt Gene was using the scene as a promotional commercial for a pin he had designed; the pin was part of Leonard’s costume. Gene vehemently denied these accusations, but the guys were adamant in their refusal to be a part of something they considered to be commercially oriented."&nbsp;</i><br /><a href="http://startrekfactcheck.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/dont-know-much-about-vulcan-philosophy.html">Ralph Senensky</a><br /><i><br /></i><i>"I got my script change, read the new scene and with my jaw still hanging open, I called Fred down to the set, asking him, 'What's this IDIC thing about?' I knew that Lincoln Enterprises would soon be selling these things, and there was no way that I was going to muck up a perfectly good story line just so we could include Gene's rather thinly veiled commercial. With that in mind, I flatly refused to do the scene. Freiberger hemmed and hawed about the difficulties involved in re-revising the script, but as I spoke to him recently for this book, he finally admitted that he was actually relieved that I wouldn't do the scene. It was probably the first time in history that a producer was glad to be dealing with a 'difficult' actor...</i><br /><i>Leonard and I had both seen through Gene's marketing ploy, and one after another we'd refused to play the scene. Still, when Gene came to the set, he did his very best to push it through. To his credit, Roddenberry was completely honest about the situation and didn't try to mask his free publicity scam behind any half-baked creative half-truths. He simply stated that Lincoln Enterprises would soon be marketing these medallions, and that he'd really appreciate our cooperation in getting the product into this storyline.</i><br /><i>So I went through a great deal of soul-searching and teeth-grinding over the situation, and finally I just had to say, 'Gene, I'm sorry, but I can't do this.' Roddenberry accepted my refusal, but kept working on Leonard."&nbsp;</i><br /><a href="http://startrekfactcheck.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/dont-know-much-about-vulcan-philosophy.html">William Shatner</a><br /><i><br /></i><i>"Although I didn't appreciate Spock being turned into a billboard, I at least felt that the IDIC idea had more value than the content of the original scene. We filmed the scene as Gene had rewritten it. But the whole incident was rather unpleasant; Roddenberry was peeved at me for not wanting to help his piece of mail-order merchandise get off to a resounding start, and Fred Freiberger was peeved at me for going over his head."</i><br /><a href="http://startrekfactcheck.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/dont-know-much-about-vulcan-philosophy.html">Leonard Nimoy</a><br /><br /><i>"I go by the Star Trek philosophy. We called it IDIC, an acronym for infinite diversity in infinite combinations. To have a good, vibrant society, we need to recognize that as an asset - something that makes us a much more progressive society but also, a more engaging society.</i><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e5ISUbn-XE">George Takei</a><br /><br /><i>"Infinite diversity and infinite combinations is what makes the world beautiful and it's true, as true today as it was then. And that's where a place of in my heart. I thank Gene for that legacy."</i><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0_jzigF2eg">Nichelle Nichols</a><br /><br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rq7IyaDlRZU/WoVXbrVG96I/AAAAAAAAPHg/9L3pe6ySI0ow9h3W492S8I917-ERv_f6ACLcBGAs/s1600/spockmiranda.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rq7IyaDlRZU/WoVXbrVG96I/AAAAAAAAPHg/9L3pe6ySI0ow9h3W492S8I917-ERv_f6ACLcBGAs/s500/spockmiranda.png" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://surak.nu/idic.php#truth">Original script</a>:<br /><br />MIRANDA<br />No, I was merely looking at your Vulcan IDIC, Mister Spock. <i>(looks up, curiously)</i>Is it a reminder that as a Vulcan you could mind-meld with the Medeusan much more effectively than I could? <i>(to the others, but smiling) </i>It would be most difficult for a Vulcan to see a mere human take on this exciting a challenge. <br /><br />McCOY <i>(to Spock)&nbsp;</i><br />Interesting question. It is a fact that you rarely do wear the IDIC. <br /><br />KIRK<br />I doubt that Mister Spock would don the most revered of all Vulcan symbols merely to annoy a guest, Dr. Jones. <br /><br />SPOCK <i>(to Miranda)&nbsp;</i><br />In fact, I wear it this evening to honor you, Doctor. <br /><br />MIRANDA<br />Indeed? <br /><br />SPOCK <i>(nods)&nbsp; </i><br />Indeed. Perhaps even with those years on Vulcan, you missed the true symbology. <i>(indicates medallion)</i><br />The triangle and the circle... ...different shapes, materials, textures...represent any two diverse things which come together to create here...truth or beauty. <i>(indicating the parts, looks up)</i>For example, Doctor Miranda Jones who combined herself and the disciplines of my race, to become greater than the sum of both. <br /><br /><i>Kirk can see Miranda isn't fully sold on Spock's intentions ...he changes the subject. </i><br /><br />KIRK<br />Very interesting, I might even say...fascinating. <br /><br /><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WH9s2PJpr4g/WoVYXW4BKdI/AAAAAAAAPHk/cikqP1XWbcAsmGJSvNl26kLo3Xtutl7ZACLcBGAs/s1600/spockidicglasses.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WH9s2PJpr4g/WoVYXW4BKdI/AAAAAAAAPHk/cikqP1XWbcAsmGJSvNl26kLo3Xtutl7ZACLcBGAs/s500/spockidicglasses.jpg" /></a><br /><br />And here the <a href="http://startrekfactcheck.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/dont-know-much-about-vulcan-philosophy.html">official description</a> of the IDIC pendants:<br /><br />"SYMBOLOGY [sic] OF THE IDIC. There are two basic shapes and two basic colors and textures, i.e., the circle and the triangle. Generally, they represent that all things meaningful or beautiful are created by the joining together of different things. The pyramid can represent man and logic while the circle represents all of creation, i.e., man and creation joined together to create beauty. Also, the triangle-pyramid represents man and the circle represents woman and the jewel represents the beauty that their joining together is capable of creating. Or it can mean the truth which comes out of the blending of different ideas and creeds or the strength and beauty that comes out of the joining of different races, or the rich life which comes out of surrounding oneself with friends who have ideas different from your own and the rich cross-fertilization which occurs in such associations. <br />The Vulcan in it, is that the glory of creation is in its infinite diversities and infinite combinations possible. As such, the IDIC represents and idea of universal brotherhood far beyond that represented by any other symbol we know of."<br /><br />- - - - - - - -<br />images&nbsp;<a href="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1920/1*4ByCzIx0lh-E4rl_mJ6oyA.jpeg">via</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://discuss.fleetworkshop.org/uploads/db1714/original/2X/e/ef50983bd6f9565bd5b01e7f2641e8b79bc7f017.png">via</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dB9nYa9ODio/TuqQiM4dQfI/AAAAAAAAKf8/jZ14LELKdQ0/s1600/ST%2BHa%2Bbeleza.jpg">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/02/infinite-diversity-in-infinite.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-3365990298845231207Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:46:00 +00002018-02-15T11:01:26.394+01:00diversityspaceStar Trek"Well, here's one thing you can be sure of, mister..."<b>Stiles:</b> I was suggesting that Mr. Spock could probably translate it, sir.<br /><b>Captain James T. Kirk:</b> I assume you're complimenting Mr. Spock on his ability to decode?<br /><b>Stiles:</b> I'm not sure, sir.<br /><b>Captain James T. Kirk:</b> Well, here's one thing you can be sure of, mister: leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge. <br /><br /><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8LCnpfSNmA4/WnjXjBqu_ZI/AAAAAAAAPB4/NXbhvLr8kXMi5Yy62te-Rr_rCO4CmQl3wCLcBGAs/s1600/balance1.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8LCnpfSNmA4/WnjXjBqu_ZI/AAAAAAAAPB4/NXbhvLr8kXMi5Yy62te-Rr_rCO4CmQl3wCLcBGAs/s500/balance1.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-slEci0eOrUc/WnjX1PYLBRI/AAAAAAAAPB8/_zsqCwB9bSwm1zMj0hARVOscV3at6XcjQCLcBGAs/s1600/balance2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-slEci0eOrUc/WnjX1PYLBRI/AAAAAAAAPB8/_zsqCwB9bSwm1zMj0hARVOscV3at6XcjQCLcBGAs/s500/balance2.jpg" /></a><br /><br />The Original Series episode "Balance of Terror" introduced a new enemy: the Romulans. It was the first time that Romulans and humans got to see each other after a war they had had a century before. As Vulcans and Romulans look similar, Lieutenant Stiles shows his prejudice toward Spock. This is when Captain Kirk replies: <i>"Well, here's one thing you can be sure of, mister: Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There is no room for it on the bridge."</i> (<a href="https://jxself.org/star-trek-racism.shtml">via</a>)<br /><br /><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E_CteB1pBl0/WnjYDtR9a1I/AAAAAAAAPCE/_rl4tJMOLDsm8QBWq5QIvuM9Xt308TW9ACLcBGAs/s1600/balance3.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E_CteB1pBl0/WnjYDtR9a1I/AAAAAAAAPCE/_rl4tJMOLDsm8QBWq5QIvuM9Xt308TW9ACLcBGAs/s500/balance3.jpg" /></a><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RdqseBkIoSk?rel=0" width="500"></iframe> <br /><br /><b>Related postings: </b><br /><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2015/03/leonard-nimoy.html">Leonard Nimoy</a><br />-&nbsp;<a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2015/11/the-conscience-of-star-trek.html">The Conscience of Star Trek</a> <br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2016/03/leonard-nimoy-on-what-he-would-say-upon.html">Leonard Nimoy on what he would say upon being the first man to set foot on the moon</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2016/11/spock-outsider.html">Spock, the Outsider</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2016/11/dear-mr-spock-1968.html">Dear Mr. Spock,... (1968)</a><br />- <a href="https://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2017/09/tuvok-black-vulcan.html">Tuvok, the Black Vulcan</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2016/06/love-it-comes-in-all-colors.html">Love. It Comes in All Colors.</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2017/02/my-captain.html">My Captain</a><br />- <a href="https://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2017/09/captain-kathryn-janeway.html">Captain Kathryn Janeway</a><br />- <a href="https://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2017/04/half-life.html">Half a Life</a><br />- <a href="https://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2017/04/the-drumhead.html">The Drumhead</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2015/04/the-nonstereotypical-role-of-lieutenant.html">The Nonstereotypical Role of Lieutenant Uhura</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2017/07/hoping-dream-becomes-reality-by.html">Hoping dream becomes reality, by Nichelle Nichols (1968)</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2015/10/captain-pike-has-female-first-officer.html">Captain Pike has a female first officer &amp; Captain Kirk hugs a mountain</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/the-star-trek-opening-monologue.html">The Star Trek Opening Monologue</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2015/04/quoting-first-lady-of-star-trek.html">The "First Lady of Star Trek"</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2016/10/its-simple-as-that.html">It's as simple as that</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2016/09/trekkies.html">Trekkies</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2016/06/quoting-william-shatner.html">Quoting William Shatner</a><br />- <a href="https://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2018/02/well-heres-one-thing-you-can-be-sure-of.html">"Well, here's one thing you can be sure of, mister..."</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2016/03/quoting-gene-roddenberry.html">Quoting Gene Roddenberry</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2016/10/trek-against-trump-for-future-of.html">"Trek Against Trump": For a Future of Enlightenment and Inclusion</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2013/07/more-on-nasa-spiced-with-some-science.html">More on space, spiced with some science fiction and a lot of diversity</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2014/07/its-ok-to-be-takei.html">It's OK to be Takei</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2017/03/quoting-george-takei-i.html">Quoting George Takei (I)</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2017/03/quoting-george-takei-ii.html">Quoting George Takei (II)</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2017/03/quoting-george-takei-iii.html">Quoting George Takei (III)</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2014/03/public-library.html">Public Library</a><br />- <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2017/03/let-that-be-your-last-battlefield.html">"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"</a><br /><br />And here an article on Star Trek and diversity in German:<br />- <a href="https://issuu.com/fazitmagazin/docs/fazit112/49">Zukunftsvisionen, kulturelle Phasenverschiebung, Vielfalt und eine Hommage an Star Trek</a><br /><br />- - - - - - - - - - -<br />images <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q1sbQugWtV8/WbLZrUUzkqI/AAAAAAAAG68/u2uFZxPjd_Uhdaybys1gFWZcQy8xkRvvgCEwYBhgL/s1600/st-balance21.jpg">via</a> and <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oLpMyzfEjWc/UgVA8BkgJwI/AAAAAAAAPUE/Kx7Jx6I3M2w/s1600/balanceofterror265.jpg">via</a> and <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-01itfIhyGu4/UtgbCGUOJDI/AAAAAAAAHFY/nP-Xvu0OcUc/s1600/balanceofterror11.jpg">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/02/well-heres-one-thing-you-can-be-sure-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-5519227294640078298Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:55:00 +00002018-02-08T11:55:08.656+01:00genderNikesportsNike's Girl EffectThe "Girl Effect" was founded by the Nike Foundation in 2004. Today, the independent creative non-profit is supported by UNICEF, the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, the Australian Government, and many more (<a href="https://www.girleffect.org/">via</a>).<br /><br /><i>"We create for young people, in ways they love and interact with. We build vibrant youth brands and we work globally, creating mobile platforms. Everywhere, we use insights into girls’ lives to shape our work, while rigorously measuring its impact.&nbsp;</i><br /><i>We focus on a girl’s whole world, along her entire journey to adulthood. And we create with her, so she can tell her story.&nbsp;</i><br /><i>Through our work a girl can start to express herself, value herself and build relationships. With the belief and support of those around her, she can then seek out the things she needs – from vaccination to education."</i><br /><a href="https://www.girleffect.org/what-we-do/our-approach/">Girl Effect</a><br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G0Cn5AzodHw/WnwiuYT4A_I/AAAAAAAAPDg/UKK5jHfEX90_c2xNQWoCBx0dTToS8LT2QCLcBGAs/s1600/Clock_Is_Ticking.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G0Cn5AzodHw/WnwiuYT4A_I/AAAAAAAAPDg/UKK5jHfEX90_c2xNQWoCBx0dTToS8LT2QCLcBGAs/s500/Clock_Is_Ticking.jpg" /></a><br /><br />More Nike postings:<br /><br /><b>:::</b> The Iron Nun: <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2016/08/the-iron-nun.html">LINK</a><br /><b>:::</b> Title IX: <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2014/03/title-ix.html">LINK</a><br /><b>:::</b> "Equality should have no boundaries." Nike.: <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2017/09/equality-should-have-no-boundaries-nike.html">LINK</a><br /><b>:::</b> Football: No to Racism: <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2014/06/football-no-to-racism.html">LINK</a><br /><br /> <iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1e8xgF0JtVg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /> image <a href="http://citiesnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Clock_Is_Ticking_Wallpaper_1600x1024.jpg">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/02/nikes-girl-effect.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-3460494294676935329Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:19:00 +00002018-02-07T10:25:07.340+01:00diversitylanguagemarketingqueer"There's a Coke for he, and she, and her, and me, and them."The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the US-American National Football League but also an investment into marketing for companies which see it as a "social media and PR phenomenon" and&nbsp;"the anchors of extended marketing campaigns" (<a href="http://time.com/3685708/super-bowl-ads-vw-the-force/">via</a>). Companies pay about 5 million dollars for a 30-second spot during the game (<a href="http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2018-how-much-do-super-bowl-commercials-cost-nbc-coca-cola-hyundai/1qap05f9qd6hd1kn2i9lahwlk3">via</a>).<br /><br /><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-11jf0Dirmps/WnrBawqS53I/AAAAAAAAPDM/n9unkeIbnzUAaQmNwyrvj8_JY4xlPlPzQCLcBGAs/s1600/cocacola.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-11jf0Dirmps/WnrBawqS53I/AAAAAAAAPDM/n9unkeIbnzUAaQmNwyrvj8_JY4xlPlPzQCLcBGAs/s500/cocacola.jpg" /></a><br /><br />This year's Coca Cola Company's Super Bowl commercial "The Wonder of Us" celebrates the beauty of diversity and "the things that make us different" (<a href="http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/a-coke-for-everyone-brand-celebrates-the-wonder-of-us-in-inclusive-big-game-ad">via</a>). Coca Cola is one of the first companies to make a non-binary reference by using the gender-neutral pronoun "<a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2018/02/they.html">them</a>" (<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/super-bowl-coca-cola-represents-binary-ad-1081767">via</a>).<br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OPi9nTE70aA?rel=0" width="500"></iframe><br /><br />image <a href="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OPi9nTE70aA/maxresdefault.jpg">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/02/theres-coke-for-he-and-she-and-her-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-6948891656742446003Tue, 06 Feb 2018 11:44:00 +00002018-02-06T12:44:37.787+01:00genderlanguagephotographyqueerThey<i>"Almost anyone under the circumstances would have doubted if [the letter] were theirs, or indeed if they were themself." </i><br />Emily Dickinson, 1881 <br /><br />Using "they" as a singular pronoun when referring to someone whose gender is unknown or of no relevance is nothing new. In fact, it has been consistently used as a singular pronoun since the 1300s. What is new, however, &nbsp;is that it is now also used for a person whose gender is known but who does not fit into the binary system and does not identify as male or female (<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbinary-they">via</a>).<br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4tcshJiaIo/WnmIdr8khWI/AAAAAAAAPCc/0bl61pqRZ-ksoyh3zaw65fxl-ZQChMhDACLcBGAs/s1600/them2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4tcshJiaIo/WnmIdr8khWI/AAAAAAAAPCc/0bl61pqRZ-ksoyh3zaw65fxl-ZQChMhDACLcBGAs/s500/them2.jpg" /></a><br /><br />"There have always been people who didn’t conform to an expected gender expression, or who seemed to be neither male nor female. But we’ve struggled to find the right language to describe these people—and in particular, the right pronouns. In the 17th century, English laws concerning inheritance sometimes referred to people who didn’t fit a gender binary using the pronoun it, which, while dehumanizing, was conceived of as being the most grammatically fit answer to gendered pronouns around then. Adopting the already-singular they is vastly preferable. It’s not quite as newfangled as it seems: we have evidence in our files of the nonbinary they dating back to 1950, and it’s likely that there are earlier uses of the nonbinary pronoun they out there."<br /><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbinary-they">Merriam-Webster</a><br /><br /><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qf6wBrSWKEw/WnmIYm04QfI/AAAAAAAAPCY/tjEin3wpOAw-8vHDsDYXc4jjFCAm7bwfACLcBGAs/s1600/them1.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qf6wBrSWKEw/WnmIYm04QfI/AAAAAAAAPCY/tjEin3wpOAw-8vHDsDYXc4jjFCAm7bwfACLcBGAs/s500/them1.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/how-non-binary-people-want-to-be-seen#2">MR</a>: What pronouns would you like me to use?<br /><a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/how-non-binary-people-want-to-be-seen#2">LP</a>: I use she and they so you can use whichever and you can switch them too.<br /><br /><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6CGuHWNII_M/WnmKAUX3ILI/AAAAAAAAPCs/Vx8P2qfMA3M3hA0TD5CQKK1TWsNO9iaQACLcBGAs/s1600/them3.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6CGuHWNII_M/WnmKAUX3ILI/AAAAAAAAPCs/Vx8P2qfMA3M3hA0TD5CQKK1TWsNO9iaQACLcBGAs/s750/them3.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><i>"My name is Laurence and I’m a photographer, curator, director, based in Montreal. Photography is the main thing that I do but I also try to do a lot of curatorial work and directing and video work and it’s all kind of based around identity, colour theory, and queer communities.</i><br /><i>(...) I was... thinking of what kind of work I wasn’t seeing out there and as someone who identifies as non-binary, and a lot of my close friends are non-binary, it was something I just wanted to make for myself. It’s really just a passion project. I just wanted to challenge the trans representation that is out there in the media. </i><br /><i>(...) non-binary is a term for basically any trans person who doesn’t fit in the binary of man/woman. But it includes a lot of identities some of the people I photograph are non-binary trans women, intersex, gender fluid. So it encompasses a lot of different identities."</i><br /><a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/how-non-binary-people-want-to-be-seen#1">Laurence Philomene</a><br /><br />- - - - - - - - - - -<br />photographs taken by Laurence Philomene <a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/how-non-binary-people-want-to-be-seen#1">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/02/they.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-1142227599755412608Sun, 28 Jan 2018 13:13:00 +00002018-01-28T14:13:25.972+01:00educationmusicA School in MalindiEvery year, the Italian Embassy in Nairobi organises a concert by a renowned Italian musician. In 2012, the musician was Mario Biondi, Italy's Barry White. All proceeds went to "an Italian Cooperation education project for the construction of a primary school for the poorest children of the coastal city of Malindi in Kenya" (<a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/434172/67/nairobi-mario-biondi-concert-for-solidarity.html">via</a> and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.euronews.com/2013/05/29/mario-biondi-italy-s-barry-white">via</a>).<br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sk4g6FPVYtI/WmzmHJhQAaI/AAAAAAAAO7o/_00ucPK0czQSBQ0Sfy1lyl5QbZ_fAJ1BACLcBGAs/s1600/mario-biondi.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sk4g6FPVYtI/WmzmHJhQAaI/AAAAAAAAO7o/_00ucPK0czQSBQ0Sfy1lyl5QbZ_fAJ1BACLcBGAs/s500/mario-biondi.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Mario Biondi Sunday music link pack:<br /><br /><b>:::</b> Yes You: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPDfEOchAI">LISTEN/WATCH</a><br /><b>:::</b> This Is What You Are: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IzccDy94Zg">LISTEN/WATCH</a><br /><b>:::</b> Deep Space: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvY0HPQxwcs">LISTEN/WATCH</a><br /><b>:::</b> Live in concert, 2015: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK-kVoinfvo">LISTEN/WATCH</a><br /><b>:::</b> Amarsi un po': <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24b2PTPo2q8">LISTEN/WATCH</a>&nbsp;(Original: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyAuDCJMYrA">Lucio Battisti</a>)<br /><b>:::</b> What Have You Done to Me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS8kuJVYNgI">LISTEN/WATCH</a><br /><b>::: </b>Shine On: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWKq1dzfjxU">LISTEN/WATCH</a><br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VSPDfEOchAI?rel=0" width="500"></iframe> <br /><br />photograph <a href="http://www.laccioland.com/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mario-biondi-nuovo-disco-a-very-special-mario-christmas.jpg">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-school-in-malindi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-5243557361943381105Sat, 27 Jan 2018 11:55:00 +00002018-01-28T13:58:15.000+01:00ethnicityPrimo Leviracismreligionsegregation"I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man." Primo LeviPrimo Michele Levi was an Italian chemist. And he was a Holocaust survivor. In 1944, he was incarcerated in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=449ZOWbUkf0">Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp</a> where he was <i>"one of the three out of the 125 people consigned with him to survive"</i>. Levi wrote several books. At first rejected by numerous publishers, <i>"If This Is a Man"</i> - which he wrote soon after being liberated from the concentration camp - was later translated into several languages and became his most famous piece of work. The book is about humanity in extremis, the collective madness he experienced but nevertheless life-affirming and without any bitterness (<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/book-of-a-lifetime-if-this-is-a-manthe-truce-by-primo-levi-1823825.html">via</a>&nbsp;and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/05/rereading-if-this-is-man">via</a>).<br />27th of January is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is the day Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet Armed Forces. It is also the day Primo Levi was liberated.<br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CgETJiAuIGA/WmrrImbuE4I/AAAAAAAAO68/s5TgSrAI1iMtAvCdTUh6uJkUyzfC6g5TQCLcBGAs/s1600/primo_levi2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CgETJiAuIGA/WmrrImbuE4I/AAAAAAAAO68/s5TgSrAI1iMtAvCdTUh6uJkUyzfC6g5TQCLcBGAs/s505/primo_levi2.jpg" /></a><br /><br />If this is a man, by Primo Levi (<a href="https://furtherglory.wordpress.com/2016/05/19/primo-levis-famous-poem-if-this-is-a-man/">via</a>)<br /><br />You who live safe<br />In your warm houses,<br />You who find, returning in the evening,<br />Hot food and friendly faces:<br />Consider if this is a man<br />Who works in the mud<br />Who does not know peace<br />Who fights for a scrap of bread<br />Who dies because of a yes or a no.<br />Consider if this is a woman,<br />Without hair and without name<br />With no more strength to remember,<br />Her eyes empty and her womb cold<br />Like a frog in winter.<br />Meditate that this came about:<br />I commend these words to you.<br />Carve them in your hearts<br />At home, in the street,<br />Going to bed, rising;<br />Repeat them to your children,<br />Or may your house fall apart,<br />May illness impede you,<br />May your children turn their faces from you. <br /><div><br /></div><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hx-r-GL91zo/WmrsjqgKQmI/AAAAAAAAO7I/hzUdI-LeKUgx7Zjd0Da1HR3foPXtGisjQCLcBGAs/s1600/primo_levi3.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hx-r-GL91zo/WmrsjqgKQmI/AAAAAAAAO7I/hzUdI-LeKUgx7Zjd0Da1HR3foPXtGisjQCLcBGAs/s505/primo_levi3.jpg" /></a><br /><br />There are speculations about Levi's death; some say it was a suicide, others say it was an accident. On 11 April 1987, at around 10:20 o'clock in the morning, the concierge rang the doorbell of Primo Levi's flat on the third floor. He opened the door, collected his letters, smiling, thanking her, then closed the door. When the concierge descended, she heard his body hit the bottom of the stairs by the lift (<a href="http://bostonreview.net/diego-gambetta-primo-levi-last-moments">via</a>).<br /><br /><i>"Primo Levi died at Auschwitz forty years later."</i><br /><a href="http://bostonreview.net/diego-gambetta-primo-levi-last-moments">Elie Wiesel</a><br /><br /><i>"Of those years [in Auschwitz] he must have had terrible memories: a wound he always carried with great fortitude, but which must have been nonetheless atrocious. I think it was the memory of those years which lead him towards his death." </i><br /><a href="http://bostonreview.net/diego-gambetta-primo-levi-last-moments">Natalia Ginzburg</a><br /><i><br /></i><i>"This suicide must be backdated to 1945. It did not happen then because Primo wanted (and had to) write."</i><br /><a href="http://bostonreview.net/diego-gambetta-primo-levi-last-moments">Ferdinando Camon</a><br /><i><br /></i><i>"Many Jews survived the concentration camps and yet killed themselves later."</i><br />Lester (2005)<br /><br /><i>"Now everyone wants to understand, to grasp, to probe. I think my father had already written the last act of his existence. Read the conclusion of The Truce and you will understand."</i><br /><a href="http://bostonreview.net/diego-gambetta-primo-levi-last-moments">Renzo</a>, Primo Levi's son<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">[And] a dream full of horror has still not ceased to visit me, at sometimes frequent, sometimes longer, intervals. It is a dream within a dream, varied in detail, one in substance. I am sitting at a table with my family, or with friends, or at work, or in the green countryside; in short, in a peaceful relaxed environment, apparently without tension or affliction; yet I feel a deep and subtle anguish, the definite sensation of an impending threat. And in fact, as the dream proceeds, slowly and brutally, each time in a different way, everything collapses, and disintegrates around me, the scenery, the walls, the people, while the anguish becomes more intense and more precise. Now everything has changed into chaos; I am alone in the centre of a grey and turbid nothing, and now, I know what this thing means, and I also know that I have always known it; I am in the Lager once more, and nothing is true outside the Lager. All the rest was a brief pause, a deception of the senses, a dream; my family, nature in flower, my home. Now this inner dream, this dream of peace, is over, and in the outer dream, which continues, gelid, a well-known voice resounds: a single word, not imperious, but brief and subdued. It is the dawn command, of Auschwitz, a foreign word, feared and expected: get up, 'Wstawàch.'<br /><a href="http://bostonreview.net/diego-gambetta-primo-levi-last-moments">Primo Levi</a>, 1962</blockquote>After the liberation in 1945, a majority of the survivors were kept in interim displaced persons camps. Interested observers conducted physical and psychological analyses of the survivors and noted the most obvious consequences, i.e., extreme physical disabilities. Apart from that, this period seemed to be a "symptom-free interval". It was only during the late 1940s and early 1950s that "the delayed effect of the Holocaust experience began to manifest in survivors". The major psyhological effect became visible after survivors had resettled and started a new life. First called "Concentration Camp Syndrome" or "Survivor Syndrome", this is now known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Rosenberg, 1984). 50 years after the horrible experiences, a significantly higher rate of PTSD &nbsp;was reported among Holocaust survivors than for war veterans. Ageing is said to be a phase of severe crisis for Holocaust survivors (Barak &amp; Szor, 2000).<br /><br /><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xk-8jFlXvBo/Wmxf2kBJwhI/AAAAAAAAO7Y/ddJc-956pnEJDiqREysC0kYvirsRwxBTgCLcBGAs/s1600/primo-levi.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xk-8jFlXvBo/Wmxf2kBJwhI/AAAAAAAAO7Y/ddJc-956pnEJDiqREysC0kYvirsRwxBTgCLcBGAs/s505/primo-levi.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Excerpts taken from <b>"If This Is a Man"</b> (<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/43004540-se-questo-un-uomo-la-tregua">via</a>) <br /><br />“It is lucky that it is not windy today. Strange, how in some way one always has the impression of being fortunate, how some chance happening, perhaps infinitesimal, stops us crossing the threshold of despair and allows us to live. It is raining, but it is not windy. Or else, it is raining and it is also windy: but you know that this evening it is your turn for the supplement of soup, so that even today you find the strength to reach the evening. Or it is raining, windy and you have the usual hunger, and then you think that if you really had to, if you really felt nothing in your heart but suffering and tedium - as sometimes happens, when you really seem to lie on the bottom - well, even in that case, at any moment you want you could always go and touch the electric wire-fence, or throw yourself under the shunting trains, and then it would stop raining.” <br /><br />“Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.” <br /><br />“There is no rationality in the Nazi hatred: it is hate that is not in us, it is outside of man.. We cannot understand it, but we must understand from where it springs, and we must be on our guard. If understanding is impossible, knowing is imperative, because what happened could happen again. Consciences can be seduced and obscured again - even our consciences. For this reason, it is everyone duty to reflect on what happened. Everybody must know, or remember, that when Hitler and Mussolini spoke in public, they were believed, applauded, admired, adored like gods. They were "charismatic leaders" ; they possessed a secret power of seduction that did not proceed from the soundness of things they said but from the suggestive way in which they said them, from their eloquence, from their histrionic art, perhaps instinctive, perhaps patiently learned and practised. The ideas they proclaimed were not always the same and were, in general, aberrant or silly or cruel. And yet they were acclaimed with hosannas and followed to the death by millions of the faithful.” <br /><br />“We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last - the power to refuse our consent. So we must certainly wash our faces without soap in dirty water and dry ourselves on our jackets. We must polish our shoes, not because the regulation states it, but for dignity and propriety. We must walk erect, without dragging our feet, not in homage to Prussian discipline but to remain alive, not to begin to die.” <br /><br />“Then for the first time we became aware that our language lacks words to express this offence, the demolition of a man. In a moment, with almost prophetic intuition, the reality was revealed to us: we had reached the bottom. It is not possible to sink lower than this; no human condition is more miserable than this, nor could it conceivably be so. Nothing belongs to us any more; they have taken away our clothes, our shoes, even our hair; if we speak, they will not listen to us, and if they listen, they will not understand. They will even take away our name: and if we want to keep it, we ill have to find ourselves the strength to do so, to manage somehow so that behind the name something of us, of us as we were, still remains.” <br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0qzTqGMyiQw/WmrqaVtM3hI/AAAAAAAAO60/XYcbQzOwnqE9UPkOP6BQDGFQ-LM6DVjSwCLcBGAs/s1600/primo_levi1.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0qzTqGMyiQw/WmrqaVtM3hI/AAAAAAAAO60/XYcbQzOwnqE9UPkOP6BQDGFQ-LM6DVjSwCLcBGAs/s520/primo_levi1.jpg" /></a><br /><br />- Barak, Y. &amp; Szor, H. (2000). Lifelong posttraumatic stress disorder: evidence from aging Holocaust survivors. <i>Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 2(1)</i>, 57-62.<br />- Lester, D. (2005). Suicide and the Holocaust. New York: Nova Science Publishers<br />- Levi, P. (1989). Se questo è un uomo. La tregua. Turin: Einaudi Tascabili<br />- Rosenberg, J. (1984). Holocaust Survivors and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders: The Need for Conceptual Reassessment and Development. <i>The Journal of Sociology &amp; Social Welfare, 11(4)</i>, 930-938<br />- photographs <a href="http://19453-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/italy-literature-primo_levi_23904106.jpg">via</a> and <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTrYaKnU8AA01Ii.jpg">via</a> and <a href="http://www.icilondon.esteri.it/iic_londra/resource/img/2017/04/primo-levi.jpg">via</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/gornick_withoutrespite_img_0.jpg?scale=896&amp;compress=80">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/01/i-am-constantly-amazed-by-mans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-5868239988354871696Thu, 25 Jan 2018 09:03:00 +00002018-01-27T13:18:31.809+01:00diversityliteratureEdge People, by Tony JudtTony Robert Judt (1948-2010) was an "outstanding historian", a "fearless critic of narrow orthodoxies and bullying cliques" (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/08/tony-judt-obituary">via</a>), a "public intellectual". Judt died of complications of <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/01/14/night/">Lou Gehrig's disease</a> which had left him paralysed in a matter of months (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/books/08judt.html?pagewanted=all">via</a>)<br /><br /><i>"In the 1960s, Cambridge produced a remarkable generation of historians (...) but one name acquired a particular resonance. Well before his death at 62 from motor neurone disorder, Tony Judt flowered not only as a great historian of modern Europe, (...) but as a brilliant political commentator."</i><br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/08/tony-judt-obituary">Geoffrey Wheatcroft</a><br /><br /><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CaJHcNBaO_A/WmiRV3iW7_I/AAAAAAAAO6k/U5X4JXaq2PgrnAktMc7LIKmLEJwWtzAwQCLcBGAs/s1600/tonyjudt.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CaJHcNBaO_A/WmiRV3iW7_I/AAAAAAAAO6k/U5X4JXaq2PgrnAktMc7LIKmLEJwWtzAwQCLcBGAs/s680/tonyjudt.jpg" /></a><br /><br />“Identity” is a dangerous word. It has no respectable contemporary uses. (...)<br /><br />In academic life, the word has comparably mischievous uses. Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies: “gender studies,” “women’s studies,” “Asian-Pacific-American studies,” and dozens of others. The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves—thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine. All too frequently, such programs are job-creation schemes for their incumbents, and outside interest is actively discouraged. Blacks study blacks, gays study gays, and so forth. <br /><br />As so often, academic taste follows fashion. These programs are byproducts of communitarian solipsism: today we are all hyphenated—Irish-Americans, Native Americans, African-Americans, and the like. (...)<br /><br />This warm bath of identity was always alien to me. I grew up in England and English is the language in which I think and write. London—my birthplace—remains familiar to me for all the many changes that it has seen over the decades. I know the country well; I even share some of its prejudices and predilections. But when I think or speak of the English, I instinctively use the third person: I don’t identify with them. <br /><br />In part this may be because I am Jewish: when I was growing up Jews were the only significant minority in Christian Britain and the object of mild but unmistakable cultural prejudice. On the other hand, my parents stood quite apart from the organized Jewish community. We celebrated no Jewish holidays (I always had a Christmas tree and Easter eggs), followed no rabbinical injunctions, and only identified with Judaism over Friday evening meals with grandparents. Thanks to an English schooling, I am more familiar with the Anglican liturgy than with many of the rites and practices of Judaism. So if I grew up Jewish, it was as a decidedly non-Jewish Jew. <br /><br />(...)<br /><br />I was thus neither English nor Jewish. And yet, I feel strongly that I am—in different ways and at different times—both. Perhaps such genetic identifications are less consequential than we suppose? What of the elective affinities I acquired over the years: am I a French historian?<br /><br />(...)<br /><br />As an English-born student of European history teaching in the US; as a Jew somewhat uncomfortable with much that passes for “Jewishness” in contemporary America; as a social democrat frequently at odds with my self-described radical colleagues, I suppose I should seek comfort in the familiar insult of “rootless cosmopolitan.” But that seems to me too imprecise, too deliberately universal in its ambitions. Far from being rootless, I am all too well rooted in a variety of contrasting heritages. <br /><br />In any event, all such labels make me uneasy. We know enough of ideological and political movements to be wary of exclusive solidarity in all its forms. One should keep one’s distance not only from the obviously unappealing “-isms”—fascism, jingoism, chauvinism—but also from the more seductive variety (...).<br /><br />I prefer the edge: the place where countries, communities, allegiances, affinities, and roots bump uncomfortably up against one another—where cosmopolitanism is not so much an identity as the normal condition of life. (...)<br /><br />To be sure, there is something self-indulgent in the assertion that one is always at the edge, on the margin. Such a claim is only open to a certain kind of person exercising very particular privileges. Most people, most of the time, would rather not stand out: it is not safe. If everyone else is a Shia, better to be a Shia. If everyone in Denmark is tall and white, then who—given a choice—would opt to be short and brown? And even in an open democracy, it takes a certain obstinacy of character to work willfully against the grain of one’s community, especially if it is small. <br /><br />But if you are born at intersecting margins and—thanks to the peculiar institution of academic tenure—are at liberty to remain there, it seems to me a decidedly advantageous perch: What should they know of England, who only England know? (...)<br /><br />Unlike the late Edward Said, I believe I can understand and even empathize with those who know what it means to love a country. I don’t regard such sentiments as incomprehensible; I just don’t share them. But over the years these fierce unconditional loyalties—to a country, a God, an idea, or a man—have come to terrify me.<br /><br />(...)<br /><br />Being “Danish” or “Italian,” “American” or “European” won’t just be an identity; it will be a rebuff and a reproof to those whom it excludes. The state, far from disappearing, may be about to come into its own: the privileges of citizenship, the protections of card-holding residency rights, will be wielded as political trumps. Intolerant demagogues in established democracies will demand “tests”—of knowledge, of language, of attitude—to determine whether desperate newcomers are deserving of British or Dutch or French “identity.” They are already doing so. In this brave new century we shall miss the tolerant, the marginals: the edge people. My people.<br /><br />More/Via <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2010/02/23/edge-people/">The New York Review of Books</a><br /><br />- - - - - -<br />photograph <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/archive_1-110713.jpg">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/01/edge-people-by-tony-judt.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-8143533605777940474Tue, 23 Jan 2018 08:52:00 +00002018-01-23T09:52:24.879+01:00ethnicityliteratureracismsegregationCamp Notes, by Mitsuye Yamada (1976)It must be odd<br />to be a minority<br />he was saying.<br />I looked around<br />and didn't see any.<br />So I said<br />Yeah<br />it must be.<br /><br />Mitsuye Yamada, LOOKING OUT (Camp Notes)<br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mJgjlYsFB_k/WmbsNFmZUMI/AAAAAAAAO5U/FWWuxSE6egoijbsWPLPr2nGGHN1nyusUQCLcBGAs/s1600/yamada.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mJgjlYsFB_k/WmbsNFmZUMI/AAAAAAAAO5U/FWWuxSE6egoijbsWPLPr2nGGHN1nyusUQCLcBGAs/s500/yamada.jpeg" /></a><br /><br />TO THE LADY<br /><br />The one in San Francisco who asked<br />Why did the Japanese Americans let<br />the government put them in<br />those camps without protest?<br /><br />Come to think of it I<br /><br />&nbsp; &nbsp; should've run off to Canada<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; should've hijacked a plane to Algeria<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; should've pulled myself up from my<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; bra straps<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; and kicked'm in the groin<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; should've bombed a bank<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; should've tried self-immolation<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; should've holed myself up in a<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; woodframe house<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; and let you watch me<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; burn up on the six o'clock news<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; should've run howling down the street<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; naked and assaulted you at breakfast<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; by AP wirephoto<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; should've screamed bloody murder<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; like Kitty Genovese<br /><br />&nbsp; &nbsp; Then<br /><br />YOU would've<br /><br />&nbsp; &nbsp; come to my aid in shining armor<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; laid yourself across the railroad track<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; marched on Washington<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; tattooed a Star of David on your arm<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; written six million enraged<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; letters to Congress<br /><br />But we didn't draw the line<br />anywhere<br />law and order Executive Order 9066<br />social order moral order internal order<br /><br />YOU let'm<br />I let'm<br />All are punished.<br /><br />- - - - - - -<br /><br />Mitsuye Yamada was born in Japan in 1923 and immigrated to the US at the age of three. In 1942, her family (including her) was incarcerated at the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/miin/index.htm">Minidoka War Relocation Center</a> in Idaho. In her writings, she focuses on her Japanese American heritage and feminism.<br /><br /><i>"The core poems of Camp Notes and the title come from the notes I had taken when I was in camp, and it wasn’t published until thirty years after most of it was written. I was simply describing what was happening to me, and my thoughts. But, in retrospect, the collection takes on a kind of expanded meaning about that period in our history."</i><br /><a href="https://academic.oup.com/cww/article/8/1/1/414906">Mitsuye Yamada</a><br /><br /><i>"I don’t think [feminism is] dead. I think that what has happened to feminism is what should happen. Back in the day, a feminist was seen as this angry man-hater or man-eater. We have fought the battle, not completely won, but now women have incorporated into their being the fact that they are entitled as women. In some ways, you don’t have to fight as hard as your mother or former generations, and in those ways [the movement] was a success. I don’t think we will ever go back. Many women don’t know that they’re feminists, but their parents fought and paved the way for them in many respects. This is also true of ethnic Americans. When you think about how black Americans paved the way for the civil rights movement, we have to acknowledge the fact that we have benefited from their battles and their deaths – because many of them did die in battle. So, we have to build from there. In some respects, we slide back, two steps back and three steps forward. But we have to keep pressing."</i><br /><a href="https://academic.oup.com/cww/article/8/1/1/414906">Mitsuye Yamada</a><br /><br /><i>"The thing that I always tell young people when I talk to them is that you have to be politically active, that you have to keep your mind and heart open and be aware of what’s going on in the world. And to have a critical sense of the world around you, I think that’s very important. I think the worst kind of thing is passivity. There’s a Japanese phrase, Shikata ga nai, meaning “it can’t be helped” – it’s the way it is. But then you become known as the model minority, and it’s just really deadening to be invisible. You should not be invisible. You should stand up and be counted."</i><br /><a href="https://academic.oup.com/cww/article/8/1/1/414906">Mitsuye Yamada</a><br /><br />- - - - - - - - - -<br />- Yamada, M. (1998). Camp Notes and Other Writings. New Brunswick, New Jersey &amp; London: Rutgers University Press<br />- photograph <a href="https://mypoeticside.com/wp-content/uploads/gallery-images/39db02b.jpeg">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/01/camp-notes-by-mitsuye-yamada-1976.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-4650318004350854413Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:46:00 +00002018-01-21T19:46:42.601+01:00diversityfoodmarketingLamb Side StoryMeat &amp; Livestock Australia's adverstising campaign "Lamb Side Story" has the message that no matter how different opinions of the left and the right are, Australians will never lamb alone.<br /><br /><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FXjnI4NJl94/WmTcgRpnQRI/AAAAAAAAO4M/8QIKokrsd6o4Pw5R7hGMoPOXxHrCsE7_QCLcBGAs/s1600/lamb_side_story_left.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FXjnI4NJl94/WmTcgRpnQRI/AAAAAAAAO4M/8QIKokrsd6o4Pw5R7hGMoPOXxHrCsE7_QCLcBGAs/s500/lamb_side_story_left.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><i>"Under the banner of You Never Lamb Alone we’ve delivered campaigns that celebrate unity and inclusivity, whilst pushing the creative boundaries and this summer is no different. Our latest campaign takes a satirical look at the diversity of modern Australia and celebrates our nation’s ability to put aside our differences, no matter our cultural backgrounds or political leanings, and join together over a delicious lamb BBQ.”&nbsp;</i><br /><a href="http://www.adnews.com.au/news/mla-s-lamb-side-story-musical-tackles-extremes-of-global-politics">Lisa Sharp</a><br /><br /><i>“Lamb as a brand stands for unity and this latest campaign shines a light on what unites us rather than divides us. In true Aussie spirit we are celebrating our nation’s ability to put aside our differences and join together over our love of lamb, the meat that brings everyone to the table.” </i><br /><a href="http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2018/lamb-side-story-australia/">Lisa Sharp</a><br /><br /><i>“Lamb Side Story proves that both extremes of global political views can be fun – there’s nothing like lamb and dancing to bring people with various levels of outrage together.” </i><br /><a href="http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2018/lamb-side-story-australia/">Scott Nowell</a><br /><br /><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EKWq5xsZnTE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Image <a href="http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/commercials/2018/1/lamb_side_story_left.jpg">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/01/lamb-side-story.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-9072041797461904477Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:24:00 +00002018-01-18T12:24:29.597+01:00LGBTqueerTVThe King. The Cool. Peter Wyngarde.Peter Wyngarde (1927 - 2018) was "Jason King" but also Jan Wicziewsky, a gay Polish army lieutenant in one of the first ever gay television dramas ("South"). The milestone in gay cultural history screened in 1959, at a time homosexuality was illegal in the UK. In the acting world it was well-known that Wyngarde was gay, to the general public it was a "closely guarded secret" (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/mar/16/itv-play-gay-television">via</a>).<br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eCWrYQ4glwI/WmCB6rt3Y8I/AAAAAAAAO1Y/_eo-MHLvWAsFcSwPeI2nsYqMLPWLVyyMgCLcBGAs/s1600/department-s_jason_king.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eCWrYQ4glwI/WmCB6rt3Y8I/AAAAAAAAO1Y/_eo-MHLvWAsFcSwPeI2nsYqMLPWLVyyMgCLcBGAs/s500/department-s_jason_king.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><i>"I think you have to give Wyngarde a massive pat on the back in terms of the bravery in taking this role. There were quite bad reactions from some of the press." </i><br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/mar/16/itv-play-gay-television">Simon McCallum</a><br /><br /><i>"I do NOT see anything attractive in the agonies and ecstasies of a pervert, especially in close-up in my living room. This is not prudishness. There are some indecencies in life that are best left covered up." </i><br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/mar/16/itv-play-gay-television">review from the Daily Sketch's critic</a><br /><br /><i>"Watching it does remind you how brave he was at the time to take this role and the way the subject is dealt with is incredibly brave." </i><br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/mar/16/itv-play-gay-television">Simon McCallum</a><br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iXQ9Upshd8I/WmCCYQA5qFI/AAAAAAAAO1c/pvlME_pkaykMPa0_NThUndvYKf3lAyt8wCLcBGAs/s1600/DEPARTMENT%2BS%2B-%2BS01E03%2B-%2BA%2BCellar%2BFull%2Bof%2BSilence.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iXQ9Upshd8I/WmCCYQA5qFI/AAAAAAAAO1c/pvlME_pkaykMPa0_NThUndvYKf3lAyt8wCLcBGAs/s500/DEPARTMENT%2BS%2B-%2BS01E03%2B-%2BA%2BCellar%2BFull%2Bof%2BSilence.jpg" /></a><br /><br />images&nbsp;<a href="https://peterwyngarde.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/department-s_the-shift-that-never-was-6.jpg">via</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6o29euX-5a8/TdwpoqWVJAI/AAAAAAAAFR8/kGTTEM38PgQ/s1600/DEPARTMENT+S+-+S01E03+-+A+Cellar+Full+of+Silence+%25281968%2529+%255BDVDRip%255D.avi_snapshot_31.49_%255B2011.05.24_22.32.43%255D.jpg">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-king-cool-peter-wyngarde.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-8649550604838680793Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:36:00 +00002018-01-15T15:36:29.460+01:00ageDavid BowiequoteQuoting David Bowie (II)<i>"If you are pining for youth I think it produces a stereotypical old man because you only live in memory, you live in a place that doesn’t exist… I think ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been."</i><br /><a href="https://blog.ioaging.org/aging/we-can-be-heroes-what-david-bowies-last-years-teach-us-about-aging-and-reinvention/">David Bowie</a><br /><br /><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5ZoCvGLz87A/Wly3pX_nkPI/AAAAAAAAOtA/9sFXCvxlA7wvDzjQpl7VsHUGoJPf0WP_gCLcBGAs/s1600/bowie1.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5ZoCvGLz87A/Wly3pX_nkPI/AAAAAAAAOtA/9sFXCvxlA7wvDzjQpl7VsHUGoJPf0WP_gCLcBGAs/s500/bowie1.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Related posting: <a href="http://moazedi.blogspot.co.at/2014/11/quoting-david-bowie.html">Quoting David Bowie</a><br /><br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P4tfPqZamzs/Wly4CGQKOTI/AAAAAAAAOtE/X1yEWzkQHpAtOEb4jT6lhgNaNLZxDa7sACLcBGAs/s1600/bowie2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P4tfPqZamzs/Wly4CGQKOTI/AAAAAAAAOtE/X1yEWzkQHpAtOEb4jT6lhgNaNLZxDa7sACLcBGAs/s500/bowie2.jpg" /></a><br /><br />photographs <a href="https://i-d-images.vice.com/images/2017/08/01/photographs-of-20-year-old-david-bowie-body-image-1501609021.jpg">via</a> and <a href="http://www.ratpack.gr/media/com_news/galleries/2017/08/16/792/photos/full/David-Bowie-The-Rock-Chameleon-Before-Being-Famous-599037c68b178__880.jpg">via</a>http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/01/quoting-david-bowie-ii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. Laura Moazedi)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4095717570288782653.post-5035007744728838062Sat, 13 Jan 2018 09:17:00 +00002018-01-14T15:25:58.746+01:00Temptations of a Faustian President<i>“Every notable historical era will have its own Faust,”</i> wrote Kierkegaard. Our challenge today is that, to some extent, we are all in a Faustian bind. We are plagued by politicians offering easy answers to complex problems – especially when those easy answers are empty promises. The legend warns us to be wary of the cult of the ego, the seductions of fame and the celebration of power. These are hollow triumphs, and short-lived; indeed, <i>“what good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?”</i> (literally <a href="http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170907-what-the-myth-of-faust-can-teach-us">via</a>) <br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gpTB137FR6k/WljEYo5GMMI/AAAAAAAAOmw/2Bbbh3HzSSA7hzVqSnsw6hTHGQRMPNp0ACLcBGAs/s1600/werner2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gpTB137FR6k/WljEYo5GMMI/AAAAAAAAOmw/2Bbbh3HzSSA7hzVqSnsw6hTHGQRMPNp0ACLcBGAs/s500/werner2.jpg" /></a><br /><br />FAUST<br />A knock? Come in! Again my quiet broken?<br /><br />MEPHISTOPHELES<br />'Tis I!<br /><br />FAUST<br />Come in!<br /><br />MEPHISTOPHELES<br />Thrice must the words be spoken.<br /><br />FAUST<br />Come in, then!<br /><br />MEPHISTOPHELES<br />Thus thou pleasest me.<br />I hope we'll suit each other well;<br />For now, thy vapors to dispel,<br />I come, a squire of high degree,<br />In scarlet coat, with golden trimming,<br />A cloak in silken lustre swimming,<br />A tall cock's-feather in my hat,<br />A long, sharp sword for show or quarrel,—<br />And I advise thee, brief and flat,<br />To don the self-same gay apparel,<br />That, from this den released, and free,<br />Life be at last revealed to thee!<br /><br />FAUST<br />This life of earth, whatever my attire,<br />Would pain me in its wonted fashion.<br />Too old am I to play with passion;<br />Too young, to be without desire.<br />What from the world have I to gain?<br />Thou shalt abstain—renounce—refrain!<br />Such is the everlasting song<br />That in the ears of all men rings,—<br />That unrelieved, our whole life long,<br />Each hour, in passing, hoarsely sings.<br />In very terror I at morn awake,<br />Upon the verge of bitter weeping,<br />To see the day of disappointment break,<br />To no one hope of mine—not one—its promise keeping:—<br />That even each joy's presentiment<br />With wilful cavil would diminish,<br />With grinning masks of life prevent<br />My mind its fairest work to finish!<br />Then, too, when night descends, how anxiously<br />Upon my couch of sleep I lay me:<br />There, also, comes no rest to me,<br />But some wild dream is sent to fray me.<br />The God that in my breast is owned<br />Can deeply stir the inner sources;<br />The God, above my powers enthroned,<br />He cannot change external forces.<br />So, by the burden of my days oppressed,<br />Death is desired, and Life a thing unblest!<br /><br />MEPHISTOPHELES<br />And yet is never Death a wholly welcome guest.<br /><br />(...)<br /><br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XrNZr3cNTFw/WljDYwE4HAI/AAAAAAAAOmo/L4Bhcdtc_v4U8LQT-qJntLUFwHTBm1sKwCLcBGAs/s1600/werner1.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XrNZr3cNTFw/WljDYwE4HAI/AAAAAAAAOmo/L4Bhcdtc_v4U8LQT-qJntLUFwHTBm1sKwCLcBGAs/s500/werner1.jpeg" /></a><br /><br />CHORUS OF SPIRITS (invisible) <br />Woe! woe!<br />Thou hast it destroyed,<br />The beautiful world,<br />With powerful fist:<br />In ruin 'tis hurled,<br />By the blow of a demigod shattered!<br />The scattered<br />Fragments into the Void we carry,<br />Deploring<br />The beauty perished beyond restoring.<br />Mightier<br />For the children of men,<br />Brightlier<br />Build it again,<br />In thine own bosom build it anew!<br />Bid the new career<br />Commence,<br />With clearer sense,<br />And the new songs of cheer<br />Be sung thereto! <br /><br />MEPHISTOPHELES <br />These are the small dependants<br />Who give me attendance.<br />Hear them, to deeds and passion<br />Counsel in shrewd old-fashion!<br />Into the world of strife,<br />Out of this lonely life<br />That of senses and sap has betrayed thee,<br />They would persuade thee.<br />This nursing of the pain forego thee,<br />That, like a vulture, feeds upon thy breast!<br />The worst society thou find'st will show thee<br />Thou art a man among the rest.<br />But 'tis not meant to thrust<br />Thee into the mob thou hatest!<br />I am not one of the greatest,<br />Yet, wilt thou to me entrust<br />Thy steps through life, I'll guide thee,—<br />Will willingly walk beside thee,—<br />Will serve thee at once and forever<br />With best endeavor,<br />And, if thou art satisfied,<br />Will as servant, slave, with thee abide.<br /><br />FAUST <br />And what shall be my counter-service therefor? <br /><br />MEPHISTOPHELES <br />The time is long: thou need'st not now insist. <br /><br />FAUST <br />No—no! The Devil is an egotist,<br />And is not apt, without a why or wherefore,<br />"For God's sake," others to assist.<br />Speak thy conditions plain and clear!<br />With such a servant danger comes, I fear. <br /><br />(...) <br /><br />FAUST <br />Canst thou, poor Devil, give me whatsoever?<br />When was a human soul, in its supreme endeavor,<br />E'er understood by such as thou?<br />Yet, hast thou food which never satiates, now,—<br />The restless, ruddy gold hast thou,<br />That runs, quicksilver-like, one's fingers through,—<br />A game whose winnings no man ever knew,—<br />A maid that, even from my breast,<br />Beckons my neighbor with her wanton glances,<br />And Honor's godlike zest,<br />The meteor that a moment dances,—<br />Show me the fruits that, ere they're gathered, rot,<br />And trees that daily with new leafage clothe them!<br /><br />MEPHISTOPHELES <br />Such a demand alarms me not:<br />Such treasures have I, and can show them.<br />But still the time may reach us, good my friend.<br />When peace we crave and more luxurious diet. <br /><br />(...) <br /><br />FAUST<br />Fear not that I this pact shall seek to sever?<br />The promise that I make to thee<br />Is just the sum of my endeavor.<br />I have myself inflated all too high;<br />My proper place is thy estate:<br />The Mighty Spirit deigns me no reply,<br />And Nature shuts on me her gate.<br />The thread of Thought at last is broken,<br />And knowledge brings disgust unspoken.<br />Let us the sensual deeps explore,<br />To quench the fervors of glowing passion!<br />Let every marvel take form and fashion<br />Through the impervious veil it wore!<br />Plunge we in Time's tumultuous dance,<br />In the rush and roll of Circumstance!<br />Then may delight and distress,<br />And worry and success,<br />Alternately follow, as best they can:<br />Restless activity proves the man! <br /><br />via&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14591/14591-h/14591-h.htm#III">Gutenberg</a><br /><br />Oskar Werner reads Goethe's Faust (German with English translation):<br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZXHmwp4JkGk?list=PL55AC62037D00047C" width="500"></iframe><br /><br />photographs of Oskar Werner (1922-1984), one of the most impressive actors ever <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0b/28/f5/0b28f5a709611b43ed523bdd72cc3ffe.jpg">via</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://images.kurier.at/c_WernerOskar90-019_FREMD_Schweiger%2BHeinrich.jpg/620x930nocrop/1.171.647">via</a> http://moazedi.blogspot.com/2018/01/temptations-of-faustian-president.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M. 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